For many of us, it's going to take some adjustment. After all, the number of frightening stories about automatons goes back into antiquity.

And those stories have left impressions...created a mindset towards robots...that I think of as our collective and individual RoboPsych.

Gradually, we're going to develop our capacity to interact with robots, to develop relationships with them. Our natural tendency to anthropomorphize and the utility that robots will bring to our lives, will help us to overcome the resistance that many of us will feel towards them.